The effect of contention on the scalability of page-based software shared memory systems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1915, Issue , 2000, Pages 155-169

  De Lara, Eyal ^a   Charlie Hu, Y ^a   Lu, Honghui ^a   Cox, Alan L ^a   Zwaenepoel, Willy ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FADING (RADIO); PROGRAM COMPILERS;

HOME-BASED; LATENCY INCREASE; LOAD IMBALANCE; PARALLEL PROGRAM; SHARED DATA; SHARED MEMORY; SHARED MEMORY SYSTEM;

MEMORY ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84958974691     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-40889-4_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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